Steam dryers

Abstract

A typical embodiment of the invention is a steam drying device that has a frame with two recessed slipways spaced from each other. A first array of longitudinally disposed bars within the frame are spaced transversely from each other. The ends of the bars in this first array, moreover, are received within respective slipway recesses. There also is a second array of longitudinal bars, the ends of which are received in respective slipways, the bars in both arrays being transversely spaced from each other to enable the bars to remove water droplets from the steam.

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows: 
     
       1. A steam drying device for removing water droplets from a stream of the steam comprising a frame having a frontal face transverse to the stream, at least two pair of recessed slipways formed therein transverse to said stream, said slipway recesses being spaced from each other, a perforated sheet of metal fixed to said frame to protect the steam drying device from foreign body damage, a first array of longitudinally disposed bars within said frame spaced transversey from each other and downstream from said perforated sheet of metal each of said bars having two ends, each of said ends being fixed to each other within a respective slipway recess, and a second array of longitudinally disposed bars within said frame spaced transversely from each other and from said first array bars and downstream from said perforated sheet of metal, each of said second array bars having two ends, each of said ends being fixed to each other within a respective slipway recess to enable said bars to remove water droplets from the steam. 
     
     
       2. A device according to claim 1 wherein each of said bar ends in said first and second arrays have bent portions to establish a U-shaped configuration for the individual bars, said bent end portions for the respective bars in each of said arrays being of different lengths in order to provide said transverse spacings.